pick up for winter CSA is today. I packed the bags yesterday, so I can just go after the workshop.
I just got home from a 5hr workshop on anaerobic bio digesters at Cornell Cooperative Extension. What fun to learn about making methane for cooking, something we don't have here at the farm.
It was also good to see the other small farmers at the table, all in winter mode, taking time off from farming. I am still catching up on bookkeeping for the year and soon will dive into seed ordering and checking how many seeds are leftover from the season. I can get lost for hours in the seed catalogs, reading the descriptions of old and new varieties, needing to not be impulsive, buying them all.
We saved our own tomatoes, winter squash, some lettuce, fennel and some flowers. There is one lettuce variety that I did not know was not being sold anymore, called "Sunset". Fortunately some of the seeds had made it into the bag of "Marshall"lettuce and when I planted Marshall, sad to have no more Sunset, there they were, just a few of them and I save seed from them. The problem is that that variety does not bolt (flower) easily, which is why I like it as a cut lettuce,. But then it is hard to get mature seed when it finally very late flowers.
And here is a recipe that I cooked this week on my cook night and liked it so much. It is from "Farmer John's Cookbook" which I can highly recommend if you are looking for a treat or present.
Dulli